Month: December 2016

Watching Westworld recently, I was fascinated by the idea of the Cornerstone — the use of powerful memories to shape the AI of the synthetics. It gave me a name for one of the story arcs I was using with Josh. We all have at least one — a memory or moment from our past […]

Chapter houses are sanctuaries for the members of the order – places of safety spread out through history to provide for the weary time traveller. Hidden in plain sight, to anyone passing by they appear to be a typical house or business, but behind the nondescript frontage is concealed a labyrinth of rooms and floors, […]

Imagine a library so vast, so infinitely expandable that it could house not only every book that has ever been written but the all the drafts, edits and rewrites ever made — this is the Library of the Oblivion Order. Managed by the Scriptorian Guild, the Library is one of the single largest institutions within […]

Dalton, 20, is a member of one of the older families – the Eckharts – one of only the three bloodlines that have been able to pass their abilities down through the generations.His forebears have had a seat on the council for the last 500 years, giving them high status and wealth within the order. […]

There are those among the order who believe in the existence of god-like forces outside of the Continuum. They refer to them as ‘elders’ or ‘ancients’ and treat them with reverence; believing that they are responsible for the patterns of coincidence and serendipity within the universe. They believe that fate and destiny are predetermined by […]

Johannes Belsarus was a 13th-century watchman who thought he had discovered a way into the future. Obsessed with the idea of being the first man to break through the frontier, he spent many years working on various hair-brained schemes and machines to try and manipulate the timelines – everything from extraordinary electrical experiments to arcane […]